An ambulance was completely gutted in a 'very unusual' fire which ripped through the vehicle while paramedics were treating a patient.
West Midlands Ambulance Service crew members were called to a home in Trent Vale, Staffordshire at 12.37am this morning.
While they were helping the patient neighbours noticed the their ambulance was on fire and alerted the health care workers, Stoke Sentinel reported.
Fire fighters were quickly on the scene but they could not extinguish the fire before it had caused substantial damage.
"West Midlands Ambulance Service can confirm one of its ambulances caught fire whilst the crew were in a nearby property in Stoke-on-Trent in the early hours of this morning," a spokeswoman for the organisation said.
"The ambulance crew was called to Flash Lane in Trent Vale at 12.37am to a patient who required assessment.
"They were with the patient when they were alerted by neighbours that the ambulance was well alight.
"The fire service were quickly on scene and extinguished the fire, but the ambulance suffered significant damage. Thankfully, no-one was injured in the incident.
"The vehicle has been recovered where the cause of the fire will be forensically investigated; because the Trust has no vehicle over five years old, fires are very unusual so establishing the cause is extremely important."
Luckily no one was injured in the incident.
